Pillager

Pillager

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Pillagers are giant bandits wielding magical swords that allow them to bypass armor.

Overview

Magic resistant criminal warlords that can dispatch scores of soldiers with their infernal blades.

Unlike most giant enemies, the Pillagers' durability comes from their high magic resistance; other than that they only have a rather mid-high 2800 HP. In addition to that, instead of the physical area attack so common to giant enemies, Pillagers have an area magic attack. This means that they can hit multiple soldiers at the same time while ignoring their armor. Due to this, they can easily decimate even the very tough and durable Paladins much faster than other enemies. Combined with their magic resistance, Pillagers are brutal to any setup without enough funding for raw physical DPS, which is useless against Raiders.

Strategy

Because the Pillager has high magical protection, unlike other giant enemies, low-level Mage Towers are not a good way to deal with them, but the Arcane Wizard's Death Ray never loses its usefulness against these giants. Sorcerer Mages can polymorph them, which also works, but the sheep can escape, or, when tapped to death, give no gold.